An app that encourages friends to put down their phones
For those of you who were wagering on the results of the Singapore Computer Society's Splash award, wonder no more: the top prize has gone to Apple Tree,
Tomorrow on CBC’s Spark: Addiction By Design
Nora Young’s Spark will run a program on “Addiction by Design” tomorrow, featuring interviews with Natasha Dow Schull (who has written some great stuff about the design of video
“For children like Gus… Siri is a nonjudgmental friend and teacher”
Judith Newman has a terrific, touching article in the New York Times about her son’s relationship with Siri: Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as
“When you buy a Smart Thing, you get locked into its software ecosystem… whether you like it or not.”
Jon Evans has a short but well-done piece about “The Internet Of Someone Else’s Things,” in which he argues that the Internet of Things will subtly redefine ownership
“He found that he almost ‘craved’ using the device:” on reports of Google Glass addiction
You might have seen articles recently on a case of a man with Google Glass addiction. It’s been written about in the Guardian, BBC, Fast Company, io9, and
Germany considering guidelines to regulate off-hours email
Last year the German Ministry of Labor set new guidelines to reduce the amount of email sent after hours. As labor minister Ursula von der Leyen put it, "It's in the
Mindfulness improves brain computer interface control
This is very interesting: a team at the University of Minnesota led by Bin He, a professor of biomedical engineering, has conducted a study measuring the ability of
Watch this during your next break
One of the things that creative people often do is take short, regular breaks, during which they occupy their minds with things that easily hold their attention. (This
Founders, startups and depression
From The Atlantic, something that sounds like a serious First World Problem, except it’s a human problem: depression among startup founders. In tech circles, depression is “more prevalent
“I took the iPhone into my life without ever really thinking about what it was gonna take from me”
Last year, Google Ventures design partner Jake Knapp published an essay about his “distraction-free iPhone,” which got a fair amount of attention. It started when he realized that